Leadership is often called upon in times of great crisis where people have lost hope, direction, faith, and courage to carry on. This pattern is woven throughout history, particularly in the history of the children of Israel. Consider Daniel, who after seventy years in exile was able to kickstart the process of returning God’s people from Babylon.

Intelligence is fundamentally spiritual in nature and by default divine in origin. This statement may sound unusual or even controversial to those conditioned by secular educational paradigms that treat intelligence as merely a function of genetics, brain chemistry, and environmental conditioning. But if we are to understand the original concept of how God has ordained…